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Updated: September 13, 2025
"Antony," called out Lord Tilchester, "you have arrived in the nick of time to save Babykins from turning into a hospital nurse. She thinks the costume becoming, and threatens to leave us for the wounded heroes. Cannot you restrain her?" "How?" asked Sir Antony, helping himself to some chicken curry. "Really excellent curry your chef makes, Tilchester."
Then, from a door at the other end, in tripped Babykins, and close behind her Lord Tilchester, and, last of all, when the clock had struck nine-fifteen, and even the funny-faced man next me had exhausted all his conversation, the door at the north end of the salon opened, and serenely, like a lovely ship, our beautiful hostess sailed towards us. "So sorry to be a little late," she said, calmly.
I am not the last to-night; there are still Babykins and Margaret and several others to come." "Oh, Lord, how hungry I am!" announced Mr. Budge, in a loud voice. I recognized him now from his picture being so often in the papers.
"Oh, Cordelia will see about that. Babykins, who knows everything, tells me she has fallen wildly in love with Luffy. He has only arrived back from the war about a week. And she will not let any other woman interfere with her. I had heard another story about her in Scotland.
"Principally stimulating," and he selected a special chutney from the various kinds a footman was handing. "What do you mean?" demanded Babykins, pouting. "Exactly what you do," and he looked at her, smiling in a way I should have said was insolent had it been I who was concerned. "But I want to go and help the poor dear fellows, and to cheer them and make their time pleasanter."
The Duke, who was on the other side of me, did not care to be left out, and persistently talked to me for the rest of lunch. Sir Antony consumed his with the appreciation of a connoisseur. It appeared to be the only thing which interested him. Babykins, from the other side, did her utmost to engage him in a war of wits, but he remained calm, with the air of a placid lion.
Of course he had to run into the hall when the bell rang, like he always does, to see what's happening, with babykins in his mouth, and as I went upstairs to call Miss Bella, he trotted into the parlor where I'd shown the gentleman. An' when I come down you just ought to've heard the wild an' awful noises he was making!
"You had no bridge, and it must have been exactly like it still is when I stay with Edward's relations in Scotland," Babykins continued. "As we arrive there I feel 'goose-flesh' on my arms, with the stiffness and decorum of everything.
You go on making your pencil marks while I think this thing out. All right, Baby; did Uncle Bill joggle you too much? There, now you're comfy again, aren't you? I say, Laurence, I'll have my picture taken some other day. Excuse me now, won't you? I have a few small fish to fry. Come, Babykins, let's go find mummy."
I seemed to see pictures and sounds of my earliest childhood as they spoke, I took to them at once. Following the English custom, Lady Grenellen did not introduce them to any one but Babykins, who happened to step forward, and we all proceeded to lunch, which was laid at small, round tables. The Duke wore an air of comic distress.
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